AP Lang vocab flashcard sem1

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Example of Antithesis

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.”

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Example of Alliteration in literature: "Well, sir, I'm Jordan Rivers, and these here are the Soggy Bottom Boys out of Cottonelia, Mississippi -- songs of salvation to salve the soul." -- George Clooney, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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"Well, sir, I'm Jordan Rivers, and these here are the Soggy Bottom Boys out of Cottonelia, Mississippi -- songs of salvation to salve the soul." -- George Clooney, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Example of Anaphora

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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island . . . we shall never surrender." (Winston Churchill, 1940)

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3 Aristotelian appeals:

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Ethos, Pathos, Logos

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Not a natural connotation of a word?

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Aggressive Connotation

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Context is the _____ in which the text is delivered.

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Environment

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Opposite of an argument is a _______.

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Counterargument

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Actual definition of a word.

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Denotation

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Argument against 'Earth is flat':

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The Earth is round.

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Ethos relates to _______

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Ethics